An Australian teenager's simple idea that would allow a complete quadriplegic to control a wheelchair by voice has earned her international recognition and a top science award for school students, handed out by Commonwealth science agency CSIRO.

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16 yr old Yaya Lu documents her 8 years of robotics competitions and her learning journery at her website yayalu.net . She is a complete champion.

If you want to understand tech, Mary Meeker's Internet Trends reports are the closest you'll get to gospel. Today the Kleiner Perkins partner released her..

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Commercial drone sales likely to total >5 billion by end 2015. That's just one bit of data - Mary Meeker has some interesting internet trend analysis that sheds light on future directions for robotics.

Soft Robotics wants to get its speciality robot hands all over your food. Last week, the year-old startup announced a partnership with a California company that makes sorters, washers, and chopping equipment for produce manufactures that ship cut fruit and bagged and washed greens to stores like Costco.

The Robot Launch Pad's insight:

Good partnerships starting to flow to some soft robotics companies. It's only surprising that it's taken this long for produce industry to realize what was out there.

Engineered Arts, a Cornwall-based company, designs and builds robots by hand, in its workshop. "We have a motto," says Will Jackson, the firm's founder, "we design in the morning, we make in the afternoon, and we fail in the evening."

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